As the Census Bureau quizzes everyone in the U.S., in confidence, about life in 1990, another federal agency is preparing to reveal what people told the census of 1920. Census forms aren`t secret ...

Looking for a long-lost uncle or aunt? Want to find out what your grandfather did for a living? Unsure of your mother’s country of birth? Need to check a birth date? Some of those answers might now be ...

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One hundred years ago, the 1920 census showed Tennessee had more males than females, had a decreasing Black population and relatively few people born south of the country's border, and was a ...

Day after day, you're seeing stories about the 2020 census on the front page and all over TV news, even though the once-a-decade head count is still months away. The president wants the census ...

On Tuesday, President Trump signed a memorandum — sure to be challenged in court as violating the Constitution — intended to bar undocumented immigrants from being counted for congressional ...

The Federal census for 1920, released by the National Archives in March 1992, is now arriving in local libraries. Hampton Public Library has the 43 microfilm rolls for Virginia counties in its ...

At about 10:30 Thursday evening, just as Fred J. Murphy, secretary of the company was driving into town on a return trip from Denver, he discovered a blaze near the sawmill. He hurried to give the ...

The 1920 census revealed that fewer than a quarter of Washington’s residents were actually born in Washington. A total of 311,970 of Washington’s 1,356,316 residents were born in the state. Most of ...

Some Census watchers are worried that underfunding the 2020 Census will lead to a disaster similar to the 1920 Census, after which Congress refused to reapportion seats for the first time in history.